Re: [ga] No room on the bus

[PacificRoot Hostmaster <idno@tallship.net>]

Yes Danny,

This is indeed a glorius day, as ICANN has affirmed that it represents
only it's own interests, and in no way seeks to foster any sort of open
cooperation with the Global Internet Community at large.

Small wonder ICANN is becoming disenfranchised from the mainstream of
Internet development so rapidly eh?
 

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Dear members,
> 
> It is my duty as your Chair to report on recent events.  As many of you know, 
> the General Assembly will be meeting on the evening of November 12 from 8PM 
> to 11PM.  The new.net organization kindly offered to sponsor our session by 
> providing food and beverage during our meeting (which comes at the end of a 
> very long day of back-to-back meetings).  
> 
> Protocol required that I contact Mary Hewitt as per the instructions posted 
> at http://www.icann.org/mdr2001/  because "Starting with the Marina Del Rey 
> 2001 meeting, there will be a new format for sponsorship opportunities for 
> this ICANN meeting."
> 
> Ms. Hewitt rejected the sponsorship application of new.net citing the fact 
> that they did not support the authoritative root.
> 
> I sent a reconsideration request to Stuart Lynn.  Mr. Lynn responded that "we 
> place bounds around whom we accept as sponsors. And new.net does not fit the 
> package."
> 
> On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, 
> was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for failing to let a white bus rider take 
> her seat.   Today, ICANN has proven that discrimination is still very much 
> alive, and that there is no longer any room on the bus for those that don't 
> share the same views as ICANN staff.  
> 
> Although our Memorandum of Understanding with the US Department of Commerce 
> states:  "Neither Party, either in the DNS Project or in any act related to 
> the DNS Project, shall act unjustifiably or arbitrarily to injure particular 
> persons or entities or particular categories of persons or entities," recent 
> ICANN actions, from the issuance of ICP-3 to this sponsorship denial, make it 
> clear that ICANN is indeed acting to injure a particular cartegory of 
> entities.  
> 
> I thank new.net for demonstrating its commitment to participation in the 
> ICANN process and for its support of the General Assembly.  It is to our 
> shame that such efforts at participation are routinely being denied by those 
> charged with the coordination activities of the Internet.  This is a sad day 
> in our history, and I mourn the death of the concept of "fairness".  
> 
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Bradley D. Thornton
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